EUPHORBIAOEM. 187 



flowers in small cushions, axillary, densely glomerate, or tlie female 

 sometimes pedicellate squamulose-bracteate. {East India^ Brazil^) 



18. Heava Atjbl.^ — Flowers moncecious apetalous ; calyx 5-fid, 

 valvate or subiaduplicate, sometimes more rarely slightly twisted at 

 apex. Stamens 5, 1 -seriate * {Euhevea ^), or 6-1 , 2-seriate [Bisiphonia ^) 

 verticillate ; the oppositipetalous 5 longer inferior;'^ others alternate 

 inserted higher ; anthers all extrorse, longitudinally 2-rimose, verti- 

 cally inserted on erect central column. Disk or rudimentary 

 {Euhevea), oftener variously evolute round base of column {Bisi- 

 phonia). Germen rudimentary surmounting top of column. Germen 

 of female flowers sessile ; glands distinct or connate, sometimes sub- 

 nil ; cells 3, 1-ovulate ; style column erect or very short, incrassate 

 stigmatiferous lobes 2-lobed at apex. Fruit capsular;^ cocci of 

 solubUe ligneous endocarp 2-valved ; seeds ^ descendent ; micropyle 

 extrorse arillate. — Large trees; juice copious mUky ; leaves alternate 

 long petiolate, digitate S'-foliolate; foUoles sessile or petiolulate penni- 

 nerved, patellar-glandulose at base ; flowers ^'' in axillary and ter- 

 minal ramified-cymiferous racemes ; female thicker pedicellate central 

 or in each cymule. {North Eastern Trop. S. America?^) 



19. Trigonostemon Bl.^^ — Flowers moncecious ; calyx 5-partite, 

 sometimes shortly 5-dentate in male flower {Bimorphocalyx}^) Petals 

 same in number alternate imbricated, sometimes minute or {Sil- 

 vcea^^). Stamens 5 {Telogyne'^^) or 3, 1 -verticillate {Silvcea, Eutri- 

 gonostemon'^^), sometimes 2 -verticillate ; verticels sometimes unequal in 



1 RoxB. Fl. Ind. iii. 848 (AMia). — Wall. bill {Siphonia).— 'S..'&.'K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. -m. 

 Cat. n. 7872 [BradUia ?). 171 [Siphonia). — Kl. in Keyn. Ann. xit. t. 4, 5 



2 Spec. 1. 0. myrsiniUs (sect. Amanoella, H. [Siphonia). — Benth. in Sooh. Journ. (1854), 

 Bn. in Adansonia. xi. 94). 369. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, iv. 284. 



3 Ghuian. 871, t. 336.— M. Aro. Prodi: 716.— 12 Bl. Bijdr. 600.— Bndl. Gen. n. 6835.— H. 

 Siphonia Schkbb. Gm. 656.— A. Juss. Euphorb. Bn. Ewphorb. 340, t. 11.— M. Arg. in Zimma, 

 39, t. 12. — Endl. Qen. n. 6799. — H. Bn. Eu- xxxiv. 212; Prodr. 1105 (inol. : Athroisma 

 phorb. 324, t. 14, fig. 39-41, t. 15, flg. 1-11.— Grwpp. Simorphoealyx Tnw. Enc/iidion Jack (?), 

 Caoutchouo A. Rich, in Journ. Phys. (1786).— SOvaa Hook, et Akn. Telogyne H. Bn. Tritaxis 

 Mierandra E. Bn. in Horsf. PI. Jm. Sar. 237 H- Bn). 



(nee Benth.). " Thw. Enmn. PI. Zeyl. 278. 



* Alternating with calyx lobes. " Hook. et. Aen. in Beech. Voy. Bot. 211.— 



« M.ABG.ini;«««««,xxxiv.204.— Sect.a'ffCff. H. Bn. Euphorb. 341. 

 H. Bn. Euphorb. 326. "* H. Bn. Euphorb. 327. 



5 H. Bn. loc. cit. 326 (sect. B). " M. Ako. in Linniea xxxiv. ili.—Trigo- 



? Alternating with lohes of disk and calyx. stemon Bi. Fl. Jav. Prafat. \ni.—?—Enchidion 



8 Exocarp often fleshy before maturity. Jack, in ffook. Oomp. to Bot. Mag. ii. 267.— Endl. 



9 Large dusky-spotty. Gen. n. 5838. (Enehidium)—H. Bn. Euphorb. 

 w Greenish or yellowish, small. 652.— M. Aeg. Prodr. 1266.— Athroisma Geipp. 

 " Spec, about 8. L. p. Si^pl. 422 {Jatropha). Notul. iv. 477. 



— Pees. Syn. ii. 688 (Siphonia).— W. Spec, iy. 



